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Cabsides, totems, poster and London Underground mix it with nameplates at Pershore

A DIESEL nameplate, cabside and smokebox numberplates, totem station signs, a London Underground platform roundel, and a poster, all mixed it with the middle-priced steam nameplates in GW Railwayana’s sale at Pershore on March 14 – the last major railwayana auction to be held live before the virus curtain came down on such activities.

Two nameplates that were ahead of from GWR No. 4088 (£14,000) and from LMS Jubilee No. 45664 (£12,900) – although also threatening the five-figure benchmark was Saint Stephen from GWR No. 2929 (£9100).

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